Earnest Exhortation
“Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: ‘Hear the words of this covenant and do them. For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, “Obey My voice.”” Jeremiah 11:6-7 NKJV http://bible.com/114/jer.11.6-7.nkjv The communication between prophet Jeremiah and God suggests that earnest exhortation from the Lord demands assiduous assimilation by the people. It takes early rising up to an intimate fellowship with God to prevent the spiritual hijack of all the benefits of His words by the business of the world. God’s words sink deep into the heart of man when it retains the priority sip of the morning. Otherwise, the weariness of daily duties takes the priority of exhorting the heart with the distraction of politics, preferences, power, and productivity. Unfortunately, the voice of these Ps is strong and irres...